Derek Chauvin sentenced to 21 years in federal prison for depriving George Floyd of his civil rights
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Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin will serve 245 months in prison for violating George Floyd's civil rights. A federal judge in Minneapolis sentenced Chauvin to 252 months but subtracted seven months for time served.
Senior US District Court Judge Paul Magnuson sentenced Chauvin to 252 months but subtracted seven months for time served.
US attorneys asked the court for Chauvin's sentence to run concurrently with his state sentence of 22.5 years.
The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.